Meet The Founder
Dana Bosnack is the director of The Well of Waterford and has served alongside her husband, Rick Bosnack, in pastoral leadership at Lifepoint Christian Church for over 25 years. Married more than 30 years, they have four grown daughters and three grandchildren.
In the summer of 2011, Dana founded The Well of Waterford as a community house to share God’s love with women and girls in Oakland County. Since then, the ministry has expanded to include two additional residential homes serving women in structured environments of healing and restoration.
Dana has always been deeply passionate about seeing women break free from bondage so they can live fully in their God-ordained destiny. Through years of prayer, faith, and God’s provision, hundreds of women have experienced freedom through this ministry, and she continues to move forward with the same vision today.
The Well Renovation
The renovation of The Well was a 5 year journey (2011-2016), and God made a way for what seemed impossible. Our community came together, companies donated, volunteers gave hours of blood and sweat, and Dana cried. Here’s to remembering the faithfulness of God. Be encouraged. If God has given you a vision, surely He will bring it to pass.
We honor all the volunteers and companies that made this vision possible. To the people who gave, the volunteers who served, and companies that delivered, we are forever grateful.
Angel Painting Services – (248) 778-7152
Baker College – (248) 340-0600
Bensons Building Supply – (248) 335-9413
R & D Drywall – (248) 673-7665
J & M Carpet – (248) 804-7225
Jacobsen Electric – (248) 722-2866
Lafata Cabinets – (248) 851-1140
Lowe’s Home Improvement – (248) 338-2566
Oakland Schools – (248) 209-2000
Roof One – (248) 322-1000
Shawn Allen Plumbing – (248) 755-1690
Siding World – (248) 674-1300
Ultimate Conversion Lawns – (248) 330-8825
As a young adult, I knew that I wanted to help women and girls who are hurting. I didn’t always know how that would look in the future.
My husband and I have pastored a church for many years. We have met many people from all kinds of backgrounds and cultures. In 2001, I was leading a Bible study on marriage. When childhood sexual abuse came up, almost all of the women in the study voiced that they too had been sexually abused. I was like, “What is going on?” It blew my mind. I had no idea that so many women had such traumatic childhoods. Those experiences formed who they were as adult women.
In 2007, I drove by an old Victorian house near our church in Waterford, Michigan. It was a true fixer-upper, but something pulled at me. I thought to myself, “What if this house was beautiful? What if it became a community house for women and girls — a place where they could heal from past hurts and create good memories?” Through a series of miraculous events and the faithfulness of God’s people, we bought the house in 2011. The community of Waterford united to help remodel and transform it for the next 5 years. We opened officially in 2017.
As our team started to work with women and girls, I realized there was a huge need for a support system for girls living in residential care. The Well started to connect with group homes, foster care agencies, and juvenile detention centers. Our old Victorian house started to become a welcome day program partner to help at-risk girls.
Your brain tends to remember moments of high emotion. Just as traumatic experiences can change someone’s life, so can encounters with God’s love. At The Well, we want to facilitate an experience that cultivates good feelings of happiness and safety. A few hours of change where a teenage girl gets to experience a fancy dinner with a Victorian setting, craft time with individual attention, and a teaching from a special speaker to share Jesus’ love. We do that in an environment of excellence that maybe they have never experienced before.
Our focus is to reinforce their worth. To let them know that they are valuable to God and that they have a purpose. To let them know we love them.
Thank you for joining with us,
Dana